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		<title>Three Weight-Loss Diets Compared</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three weight loss diets were compared over the course of two years in a newly published clinical trial conducted in Israel. The “winners” are the Mediterranean and the Atkins diet. People on one of these two diets lost more weight than the people on the low-fat diet long recommended by the American Heart Association and many physicians.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=1156&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Be Fat and Fit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For cardiovascular and other health benefits like increased longevity, you need only exercise moderately for 30 minutes at least five days a week. That has been the recommendation for nearly 15 years, and it has decades of high-quality research to back it up. In an attempt to refine things further, a team of researchers asked the questions: Can this exercise recommendation be cut back further and still produce health benefits? Will 45 minutes five days of the week provide even more?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=1133&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vitamin D Deficiency: Cause Of Many Ailments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Medicine brought experts together recently to explore the question of whether the RDA or recommended daily allowance, of vitamin D has been set too low. The impetus for the occasion was the mounting evidence for this vitamin's role in preventing common cancers, autoimmune diseases, type 1 diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=921&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Obesity Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obesity myth, according to author Paul Campos, is based on three claims: that excess weight causes illness and early death; that losing weight improves health and extends life; and that we know how to make fat people thin. The book is well armed with footnotes to support his argument that the public has gotten a skewed view of the research from the media and from obesity specialists, who are largely funded by the $50 billion a year weight loss industry.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=213&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How We Came to Believe that the Low-Fat Diet is Good and Cholesterol is Bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the low-fat message is yet-another overrated bit of medical advice. Haven't we been hearing for years that a low-fat diet will reduce your odds of dying of a heart attack? Yet those who assessed all the relevant studies (like the reviewers quoted above) have concluded that the evidence supporting the advice boils down to this: Eating a low-fat diet will not help you live longer, but it may slightly reduce the odds of having a non-fatal heart attack--if you are a man. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=1531&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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